Video Archive

The Center’s events reach an audience into the future through our archive of podcasts and videos.

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The Balfour Declaration and its Legacy

Thursday, November 16, 2017

A panel of scholars explore the history of the declaration and its significance for today.
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A Model Minority? Sephardi Jews in the Late Ottoman Empire

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

A lecture by Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)
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Beyond Honor and Shame: Rabbinic Control of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt

Thursday, May 18, 2017

A lecture by Eve Krakowski, Princeton University
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Jewish Childhood in Ottoman and Independent Iraq

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) is the featured speaker in the first Averroës Lecture on Jewish Communities in Muslim Lands, a new series sponsored by CNES.
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Interview with PhD Student Levi Thompson, Co-Founder of TahrirDocuments.org

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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Graduate Student Profile: Ryan Donaghy

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Poetry by Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Renowned Palestian poet Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah visit UCLA for a poetry reading on October 25th, 2012.
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Afaf Nash and Susan Slyomovics

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Afaf Nash reads "there is still a sun that rises…"by Abdul Satar (Abu Ali), from the documentary film A Candle for the Shabandar Cafe (directed by Emad Ali). Susan Slyomovics reads the English translation of the same poem.
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Revolution, Reform, and Repression: Challenges to Women's Inclusion and Equality in the Middle East

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The 1st Annual International Women's Day Lecture by Sussan Tahmasebi, recipient of the Human Rights Watch's 2011 Alison Des Forges Human Rights Award for Extraordinary Activism.
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Beau Beausoleil

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Beau Beausoleil reads "TV Terror" by Huda Al-Marashi and follows with closing remarks for the reading.
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Jim Natal

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Jim Natal reads his own poem entitled "The Street of the Poet".
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Tania Baban and Jen Hofer

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tania Baban reads "A Half-Burned Page on Al Mutanabbi Street" by Dunya Mikhail in Arabic. Jen Hofer reads the English translation of the same poem, translated by Dunya Mikhail, Dima Hilal, and Beau Beausoleil. She follows with her own poem "less then more then less again".
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Elline Lipkin

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Elline Lipkin reads Adnan Mohsen's "More Rare," followed by her own poem written with Aga Shahid Ali entitled "Al-Mutanabbi Street."
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Aram Saroyan

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Aram Saroyan reads "Night in Hamdan" by Saadi Yousef, translated by Khaled Mattawa, followed by his own poem "Autobiography".
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Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Janet Sternburg

Friday, March 9, 2012

Janet Sternburg reads a poem written in the 10th century by an anonymous author, followed by her own poem entitled "Seeds".
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